Institute of Geophysics
Leading edge research and education in georisks and georesources at the cluster of excellence KlimaCampus
Acting Director:
Prof. Dr. Torsten Dahm
Deputy Director:
Prof. Dr. Matthias Hort
Secretary:
Christel Mynarik
Address:
13th/14th floor in the Geomatikum
Bundesstr. 55
D-20146 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 42838 2973
Fax: +49 40 42838 5441
News
SEG Award for Baykulov, Dümmong and Gajewski
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) as the largest organization for Applied Geophysics has distiguished the presentation A workflow for the processing of reflection seismic data with CRS
attributes, authored by Mikhail Baykulov, Stefan Dümmong and Dirk Gajewski with the Best Poster Award. The paper was presented during the Annual Meeting of the SEG in Houston, Texas, USA, in 2009. The Award will be presented to the authors during the SEG conference in Denver, Colorado, USA in October of this year. This award does not only recognize the contributions of the authors but the efforts of many researchers of the WIT consortium in their continuous research to develop an alternative path for reflection seismic data processing.
13th WIT Meeting
From Februars 24th to 26th the researchers of the Wave Inversion Technology project meet with their sponsors. WIT was founded in 1997 and performs leading edge research in seismic exploration since then. During the 13th annual meeting the new research report will be delivered to the sponsors and the most recent results are presented in a two day symposium. For more details see www.wit-consortium.de.
Alexander Gerst is new ESA astronaut
On May 20th 2009 the geophysicist of the University of Hamburg, Alexander Gerst, was anounced to be one of the six new astronauts of the European Space Agency (ESA). More than 8000 applications where submitted to ESA for the recruitment of new astronauts. Alexander ist the only scientist among the newly assigned astronauts. He is currently perfroming PhD studies at the Institute of Geophysics considering problems of volcanology before he will occupy his new position in September 2009.